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Women in Lebanon are treated according to patriarchal norms although the legal status of women has improved since the 20th century. Gender equality in Lebanon remains problematic. [ 3 ] Active feminist movements exist in Lebanon which are trying to overcome the legal and sociopolitical discrimination enshrined in law.
Hadiqat al-Akhbar (The News Garden in English) is the first daily newspaper of Lebanon which was launched in 1858. [1] From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [2] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [3] However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law. [3] [4]
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Yacoubian started work in June 1995 in ICN (Independent Communications Network), a Lebanese television station founded by Henri Sfeir. Through Sfeir's encouragement, who also had the license for Nida' al Watan newspaper, the then 19-year-old Yacoubian became a celebrity broadcasting news and interviews and appeared frequently in the news broadcasts of the station.
The first political, literary, and scientific magazine, the first children's magazine, and the women's magazine in the country were established in the period between 1870 and 1896. [2] These were also the first specialized publications in the Arab world. [2] In 1927 there were 121 magazines in Lebanon. [3]
Zaynab Fawwaz (1860–1914) – poet, historian, women's rights activist; Hedy Habra – Lebanese-American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor; Joumana Haddad (born 1970) – writer and feminist; Ounsi el-Hajj (1937–2014) – poet; Salma Hage (born 1942) – writer and cook; Labiba Hashim (1882–1952) – pioneer woman writer and ...
Raghida Dergham was born to Nabih and Bahia Dergham in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1953.Her family is Druze in religion. Dergham moved to the United States in 1970 when she was seventeen, and worked her way through college at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh where she studied creative writing and journalism, and graduated in 1974.
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